Friday, December 30, 2011

I've been noticing that my hair is showing gray hairs everywhere! So, I think is time to panic and start taking extreme measures to cover them, to deny them, to pretend they don't exist! However, it is to be expected. My Father was covered in grey hairs by the time he was 25 so at 40 I don't think I'm doing so bad, I just didn't expect them this early, I mean my Mother is 61 and I can count her grey hairs in ONE HAND! Or is it the daily stress that's causing them to come out early? Perhaps, but I know for a fact that my mom had quadruple the stress so, I'll dissmis that theory.

So the question is, is it genetics or B12 deficiency? For right now, I will toss out the genetic destiny and test out the B12 theory and deny it is my genetics who are turning me gray! I will now buy me B12 and for the time being color my hair with my favorite color. Black.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Ethan Hunt comes back to clear his organizations name (IMF) after being accused of bombing the Russian Kremlin and the IMF is blamed and dismantled and so Ghost Protocol is formed to discover who was behind the bombing and to recover secret nuclear codes. The action scenes in this movie were brilliant and amazing to watch, again, Tom Cruise is amazing as Ethan Hunt and his supporting cast gave great perfomances and as always witty! This is a must purchase movie for us and we think this is one of the best M.I movies they've made yet. It will be very hard to replace Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, he is, like all of us, showing his age but still looking pretty good.

4 IMF's stars!

Movie: Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows

Sherlock returns again to investigate Professor Moriarty who is scheming war between European countries, however Sherlock has no proof and seeks out his partner Dr. Watson to help him but he's getting married but not before seeking the help from a Gypsie. I enjoyed the first Sherlock movie, this one was enjoyable but I felt rather long, it doesn't dissapoint listening how Dr. Watson and Holmes interact.

3 Sherlock Stars.

Movie: The Company Men

This is the story of three men who have been laid off and are trying to survive in a very tough (current)economy. We see how these three men cope by being unemployed, if you have ever been laid off, you know the feeling. One has spent 30 years of his life but is given a great retirement package and stocks, the second spends the next four months denying his severance paychecks are about to end and facing foreclosure, the last one takes it very hard and makes a life decision he could regret. This movie shows you the greed of CEO's and how the rest of us are scrapping by. Hard to watch.

3 Stars.

Movie: Battle - Los Angeles

Another Alien Invasion movie where the cast has to find out how to destroy the Aliens, well after two days if the environment and water hasn't killed them off, what then? John and I figured it out pretty quickly. We also figured out we are done with Alien movies unless it has Sigourney Weaver in it, she can kick some Alien's butt!

Friday, December 23, 2011

I hate Winter. I hate feeling cold. For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many people "wish" for a White Christmas! All I want for Christmas is to pop fireworks and dig my toes in white sand on Christmas day.

One day, God willing, I will celebrate Christmas on a warm place, digging my toes in the sand, and sipping on a refreshing cool drink. Heck, it doesn't have to be white sand, any beach sand will do as long as it is far, far away from winter. Bluh.

O.M.G. I'll start with that and then get dizzy, pale and probably pass out next time I shop at Toys R Us next year.

So, I decided to wait until I was on vacation to Christmas shop for our girls and I chose yesterday (Wednesday) to do so. I went to Target first in the a.m. about an hour and a half before lunch and the store was not buzzing with crazy shoppers but after an hour it seemed that everyone had gathered at the toy section of the store because I could no longer roll my cart inside the aisles, then I proceeded to head to the Electronics section where I also found a lot of people but it was o.k, not crazy just o.k. then after lunch I proceeded to head out to Toys R Us where I found it to be a mad house.

There were absolutely no employees to help you through the maze of toy aisles full with people and with absolutely no clue as to where the toys were located, I found myself going through every single aisle and suddenly, I was sweating and getting dizzy. That was nerve wracking to say the least and only to find out that what I was looking for, once I was at the cashier's was out of stock AND the only store to carry the item was in FRISCO!!!

Which meant that if I wanted to save $50 in this item (Wednesday was the last day of the sale) I needed to make a decision to drive to Frisco. I did. Fortunately for me, that store was not a mad house.

My point is, when you are shopping for toys people can get frantic. I got dizzy and pale. No one was smiling, no one, I take it was happy to be there; I reckon buying toys for your kids can be a happy event but Christmas shopping can throw the jolly out the window.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

It has been quiet a few weeks since I don't venture out in our front yard and Sunday the weather was warm and after picking up the dogs poop that has been accumulating for about 4 weeks, the girls and I went outside and we have lots of work to do after Christmas! This time we'll let the girls help out.

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There were some parts there is so much leaves it came up to their knees. They loved it!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

1. It has been years since I have visited an Old Navy store and instead of coming out empty handed and disgusted at the lack of choices for me and John, this time I bought me a nice sweater for work and bought Sofia several tops. They still target the teenage masses and that's fine with me, thank goodness the Gap near me is not been shipped to China. Old Navy has nice stuff for my girls, I can only get so much out of Target who also has a nice clothes for kids, but sooner or later you do want variety.

2. I blame Thanksgiving and all the Christmas parties we are about to attend for my lack of keeping up with my healthy eating habits. Thankfully, we have January to look forward and reaffirm our goals all over again!

3. For the last two weeks, I have been listening to Leonardo Favio, Sandro, Leodan and other artist like these. Years ago, my father used to play their songs every weekend and I felt tortured every time I heard them. I could not understand why anyone would listen to bad songs. Today, I understand why my father liked them; they are not like today's music, dirty. The music of yesterday is amazingly beautiful, I just did not understand its simplicity.

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We are two goofie people that got married back in June of 2001 then 6 years later we made another goofie precious little girl named Sofia then we waited a year and decided to procreate another baby girl. We also have two goofie dogs, Lenny and Billy. We live in this goofie house close to a walking trail and we are very happy in our little goofie world.

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Make love a priority. Corinthians1 13

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails.

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Excerpt from Purpose Driven Life

Life is all about love.Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love. It is in loving that we are most like him, so love is the foundation of every command he has given us "The whole Law can be summed up in this one command: Love others as you Love yourself." Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're give an a lifetime to learn it....

... Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people- irritating, imperfect, frustrating people...

..Let love be your greatest aim...

Excerpt #3 from PDL

Love Is an Action12/18/2008Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions. 1 John 3:18 (NLT)*** *** *** ***Love is something you do. Do you really love someone? Let’s see how you act toward that person. You show love by what you do, not just by what you feel.Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It’s also more than sentimentality, like so many of today’s songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No, not at all. Because love is an action; love is a behavior.Over and over again, in the Bible, God commands us to love each other. And you can’t command an emotion. If I told you “Be sad!” right now, you couldn’t be sad on cue. Just like an actor, you can fake it, but you’re not wired for your emotions to change on command. Have you ever told a little kid, “Be happy!” I’m trying, daddy!If love were just an emotion, then God couldn’t command it. But love is something you do. It can produce emotion, but love is an action.The Bible says, “Let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions” (1 John 3:18 NLT). We can talk a good act: “I love people.” But do we really love them? Do you really love them? Our love is revealed in how we act toward them.

Excerpt #2 from PDL

Love Is a Choice2008/11/25… That you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:20 (NIV)*** *** *** ***Love is a choice and a commitment. You choose to love or you choose not to love.Today we’ve bought into this myth that love is uncontrollable, that it’s something that just happens to us; it’s not something we control. In fact, even the language we use implies the uncontrollability of love. We say, “I fell in love,” as if love is some kind of a ditch. It’s like I’m walking along one day and bam! – I fell in love. I couldn’t help myself.But I have to tell you the truth – that’s not love. Love doesn’t just happen to you. Love is a choice and it represents a commitment.There’s no doubt about it, attraction is uncontrollable and arousal is uncontrollable. But attraction and arousal are not love. They can lead to love, but they are not love. Love is a choice.You must choose to love God; he won’t force you to love him (Deuteronomy 30:20). You can thumb your nose at God and go a totally different way. You can destroy your life if you choose to do that. God still won’t force you to love him. Because he knows love can’t be forced.And this same principle is true about your relationships: you can choose to love others, but God won’t force you to love anyone.